Label holder



Oct. 7, |924.

1,511,028 J. COOKE LABEL HOLDER Filed Nov. 4 1921 @wml/Mur JAMES COOKE. M y

Patented Oct. 7, 1924.

UNITED STATES y JAMESY COOKE, or OMAHA, NEBRASKA,

LABEL HOLDER.

. Application i'led November 4, 1921. Serial No'. 512,814.

Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Label Holders, of

, which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to label holding devices adapted for attachment to articles of wood or like material into which fastening means may be driven to secure the labelholder thereon. It is the object of my invention to provide a label-holder of this character, which may be economically produced from thin soft sheet-metal, the holder being formed by drawing or rolling a' flat strip of the sheet material, and being produced in long pieces from which sections of the desired length may be cut as required for use. A further object of my invention is to provide, integrallyl with the body of the holder, means for securely and permanently attaching the same to the article on which it is to be used, the attaching means comprising tongues turned out from the body and adapted to turn laterally and clinch in the material into which they are driven.y A further object of my invention is to produce, in the attaching-tongues formed from the soft material, such hardness, strength and rigidity as to fully adapt the same for driving into hard wood, without liability of the tongues bending laterally prior to the entry thereof into the wood, and thus failing to enter the wood, clinch therein, and securely retain the holder in position thereon.

In the .accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a front view of a strip of the formed material from which the label-holding sections aremade, the central portions of the strip being broken away, Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, Fig. 3 is a front view of a label holder formed from the strip and attached to a support, Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section, on a greatly enlarged scale, through a portion of the holder, the section `being in the plane of the line 4-4 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a detail'sectional view, showing the preferred method of forming the attaching-- tongues.l

The label-holder provided by my invention comprises a flat body or plate 6 of soft sheet-metal, having at uniform intervals throughoutr its length annular series of pointed tongues 7 'turned back from the body of the plate so as to extend perpendicul'arly to the plane thereof, and having along its longitudinal vedges continuous flanges 8 which are turned forwardly and inwardly from said edges 0f the bodyplate.l Said flanges 8 provide parallel opposed U-shaped channels, between which a label of-stid paper, cardboard or the like may be inserted, either by sliding .the label in longitudinally fromthe end of the holder, or by inserting one edge of the label into the channel at one side of the holder, then bowing the label transversely sufficiently to enable insertion of the opposite edge in the other channel, and finally flattening down the label against the body-plate to complete the entry of its edges beneath the inturned edges of the flanges.

The holders are preferably produced in as long pieces as may be conveniently handled, and sections of the desired length cut from such long pieces as required for use. The user may thus secure holders of any desired length without the necessity of keeping in stock all of the various lengths that might bev desired. The material used in the holders is preferably soft sheetmetal, such as soft brass, or soft iron suitably coated, as with tin, nickel, lacquer or like material, to prevent corrosion. Thin material is used in order that a minimum weight thereof may be required, and also to facilitate the drawing or rolling ofthe same to form the flanges 8 at the edges of the strip. The drawing or rolling of the flanges is also facilitated by the use of a soft rather than a hard material.- The use of a. soft material also facilitates the cutting of the shorter sections from the long pieces, and enables the user to readily flatten down the inturned flanges so as to grip the edges of the label, should it be desired to permanently secure the label in the holder. Accidental` displacement of the label, by movement longitudinally of the holder, may also be prevented by crimping down the flanges 8 at the ends thereof, as clearly shown at m9 in Fig. 4. The crimped portions y9 lat the ends of the iianges may be conveniently produced by inserting the label into a portion of the long strip, and then cutting from said strip the portion containing the, label, bymeans of ordinary shears, ywhich' will press down the flanges simultaneously with the cutting of the same. t

The tongues lare formed `from circular 15 means for forming the 'tongues are rep' 20 plane-surfaced' facets C.

:l5 radial 'lines determined hy thel corners ,fu pleted terni longer than they Would he it YW lis advantageous not only in tl GV "thereo'tt hyreason et their t portions yoit' the body-plate 6, at unitirni intervals throughout its length, each ot said circular portions oit the plate producing; an annular series oit the tongues, whichv are originally sectors ot the circular portion7 and u'lieh remain attached to the tt the border ot the circular by their displacement r ein nie plane. Each tongue is thus ot approxilO'niately triangular forni, ha a sharp point directed outwardly it l `t 'the' opposite or haseportion to the plate, and the hody ot tonen being transversely curved. 'lhe pretei and sentedin 5, and eoinp- -inO'va cylindrical opening through it, n d

'a` ey'lin'dricall punehl having po 4portion formed lou-a number or i o thepunch-hody is such' that when it is-insorted in clearance the Walls the-opening,` through the Vdie `the between itsfcyf body of the opening he slightlg.

'35 less than thethicltness of the material in Vthe-platef. rfter the d rawiwror rolling of the strip to forni the flanges y8i the haelt of the strip is placed uponthe-upper surtaoe ofthe die 'and the Dunch is actuated YW hy suitable means to drive the'sarne through the'fplate Iand into the 'die7 or to a positio-.i substantially as shown in 5. its the point=ofthe punch engages the plate the material therein is cut or hrolren along` the merely hentout'wardly 't' nnlhe rody ot 'the'plate yWithout being' conined between rlhe resulta t 'f uesyhy the su"c thefp'uneh and die -in-g olf/ the toi t ie tongues lareadaptedthereby to penetrate riore deep-A ly into the Wood or other support to which the holder is attached,y out also in 'tl lsoft material is=-hardened and stillenetL Vthe tong-ues are not too easilyv lient or crumpled during' the tliiiii'ig` the-,reet into the support. "The longues "further strengthened against bending or cruinplin insyerse cur Y der is inore effec- "turey an'dfohfvl ouslj thei la tiVeQlat'theWide ends orhases than at the 1points,-sincethe arci-near the points is so slight as to be inappreeiahle. rsa further Lresultof lthe 'niannerfin Whioh the tongues thereoif, so that Loes situated aste e allel vith thegrai-n of the Wood.v The ton'ues which extend transversely to the grain' otthe Wood Willusually' clinch therein.y hut are not so certain `to do so as those which are parallel With the grain. ln actualpractieeit is tou-nd that when the de- "ibed holder is placed upon a hard Wood support7 such as indicatedvat W in Fig. 3., and toreihly pressed thereagainst7 as by liannner hlow., the tongues will readily penet I'e the AWood and nearly all ofthe saine curl or clinehftherein. rllhe'holder is will thus secured to 'the-support f permanently, or vso that it can'he displaced only by the anplication thereto of a substantially destructive force.

lt -Will'he seenlthatlthe described labelholder inay `he readily and economically produced, andthat'it is applicable tor use under a great rVariety of conditions7 loi' seculig; labels to cabinet drawers; Wood showing, boxes) directory boards, and the like.

Non', haring described iny invention, what rl claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A' label' holder comprising ahody. plate voiZ sott sheet inetal bent at the side edges to toi-1u lahel receiving flanges and provided het-Ween the'tlanp'es Witlifa seriesv of trans- Versely curved swage-hardened tongues torined integral ywith the lhody plate and extending` perpendicularly thereto, said tonguesihaving pointed ends and'ivide base portions? the latter joining thehody plate, said hardened tongues "being adapted tor driving int'o 'an iinpertorate support, to se` cure the lahel holder to the tace ot the sainel er `labelholder comprisingahody plate of sott slzeet instal bent at the side edges te i in lah-el reeeirin-'g tla'nges land provided with ank annular series ot transversely curved sWfAfe-hardened tongues v`toianed integral the` plate Yand `xtendingi perpendicu nrlyfthereto, said tonguesiha'ving pointed ends and Wide base portions and the edges ofthe tongues -a'djacentlto'theirpoints heing heifelled Wherehy'to direct said tongues laterally `'when penetrating a support and Vthereby etlectiautoina-tio elin'chin'g --o'f the tongues therein,

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3. In an article of manufacture, a relatively long body strip of soft sheet vmetal having opposite U-shaped label receiving flanges at its longitudinal edgesand adapted 5 to be cut into required lengths to form label 10 tongues joining the strip and the tongues being transversely curved o-nV a short radius wherebyV to stitl'en and adapt the same lfor hammering into an imperforate support and the edges of the tongues adjacent to their points being bevelled whereby to directsaid points laterally When penetrating a support and thereby effect automatic clinching ofv the tongues therein. n p

JAMES cooKE. 

